{"id":1384,"date":"2017-05-10T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T18:02:39","slug":"little-creek-mesa-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Little Creek Mesa – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I woke up to the sounds of Coyotes yipping it up with all of their friends in the wee hours of the morning.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the coyotes sounded like he was right outside of tent.\u00a0 I could hear the other end of the conversation way off in the distance, so evidently the fellow near me had to put a little extra spank on his call to get there.\u00a0\u00a0 It was still dark out and after Mr. Coyote moved on, I got another hour or two of shuteye before getting up for good.\u00a0\u00a0 Here was the view of Casa Del Bill for the weekend.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>After seeing a few \u201cnew-to-us\u201d forks in the trail and cairn stacks yesterday we decided that we would ride a second day here instead of hitting up a different location.\u00a0\u00a0 It certainly made the logistics easier by not having to break camp and pack up before heading out for a ride.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cook up some breakfast and hit some trails straight out of camp was the plan.<\/p>\n

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Little Creek Mesa once again did not disappoint. We found our way over to the stuff we had seen the day before and we were soon on some nice stuff not on our map.<\/p>\n

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I later did find the trails on some other maps where it was listed as something along the lines of \u201cThe Alternate Loop\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u00a0is a fantastic alternate.<\/p>\n

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I like the way the photo above came out as I think it captures one of cool aspects of riding on the huge sections of rock on the mesa.\u00a0\u00a0 You are routinely scanning for the route, looking and chasing rock\u00a0and looking for lines across and through the fields of slick rock.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a form mental engagement with the trail that is hard to come by on different forms of\u00a0topology.<\/p>\n

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While scoping along our route, we came across sizable rock overhang that required an assessment of its chilling out worthiness.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh its most worthy!\u00a0 This area we were was marked with cairns but was to later not be found on any of the maps\/resources I have.<\/p>\n

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Talk about a tough way to make a living.\u00a0\u00a0 This small pine tree is literally between a rock and a hard place.\u00a0\u00a0 You see this often out on the mesa and it pretty to cool to see how life is going to find a way.<\/p>\n

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One of the section of the mesa we were on was quite fun and required quite a bit of route finding as we went along.\u00a0\u00a0 The picture above is looking back at the direction we came from.\u00a0\u00a0 We realized we would have more ups than downs on the way back.<\/p>\n

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This was the view off the edge of the mesa we had ridden down to.\u00a0\u00a0 The view did not suck.\u00a0\u00a0 From here we would trace our way back to camp and start getting packed up for the return trip home.\u00a0\u00a0 I pulled back into the garage at home at roughly 10pm.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a pretty easy there and back kind of weekend with some quality trail time from sure.\u00a0\u00a0 I tend to forget just how accessible this area from San Diego.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I need to make more trips here.<\/p>\n

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